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had so much slighted" when the former adds an e to the first word, and
crowds ano. e. bef. i in the last word. May I not suggest, with becoming
modesty, that the better copy is the later?
Yet more direct is the evidence (to the same point) derived from
what printers call overrunning or spacing out, to improve the appearance
of a line or a page. Several such I pass by in the first fifteen
pages, as also words chang. from Italic to Roman letters, but on 16th p.
the top line of Aspinwall's copy contains at the end the citat. "Acts 15;
9," wh. is made the whole of sec. line in the others. Then to equalize
the number of lines in the respective pages, the last line of A's. copy
becomes first of p. 17 in the others. Many more might be quoted, but
beside that it would be tiresome to do it, the GREAT evidence of unlikeness
of beginning and ending of lines, without changing word or letter,
exc. in space, is found in the preface. Let the introduct. note to the
Reader, sixteen lines in A's seventeen in D's copy, be compar. in the
two books by laying one alongside of the other, and the same heavy mass
of ornament at the top of the page is seen, -- as well as the beautiful
decoration around the big I. with wh. Weld opens in ea. -- the types
are the same in every letter, exc. that "straite of time" in A's. copy
gains one letter in D's. by spell. "straight." Yet, altho. the initials
append. (T. W.) are identical in both, the technical sig. A. 2 in Aspinwall's
is deficient in Deane's; so also A. 3 on the p. next but one of A.
in D's. appears * 3; and the page in A's. copy with sig. B. has two stars
in D's. copy instead of a letter, and so onward, until the page last but
one of the preface in A's copy, with sig. C. becomes sig. A. and last but
two in D's copy. Of the earlier impress. every one of the lines is
overrun, and spaced out in the later. The same cap. I. imbedd. in an
ornam. wh. is seen in the opening of note to the reader for both copies
of A. and D. appears the first letter on p. 1 of three copies of Aspinwall,
Coll. and Deane; but in the third the color of the decoration is very
much darker than in those two. Very great variety is seen in the
preface, especially in the ornament across the first page, and the types
for title, while hardly a letter is changed, and the forms plainly are the
same; that is, the types were never distrib. A's. copy gives the first
word "AFTER," while D's uses Italic caps. for the whole word; and the
first letter is twice as large in the latter copy, and five-fold more decorat.
Nine lines of the first page run over from Aspinwall's to the sec. of
Deane's; and the last nine lines on the next of A. become ten lines in
D. and twelve lines at the foot of next p. in A. swell into fourteen upon
the top of the foll. in D. The accumulat. is seventeen on D's next page,
eighteen on next; but with that number the addition ceases; and the
Col's awkward squad is made to dress regularly in lines thus altered;
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